I’m reading The Art of Prayer for my class. Written in 1957, so I’m kind of 😴.
Then this. Now I’m awake because YES.
This is the prayer people like me HAVE TO LEARN. We want to decide, intervene, plan, control, dictate.
We cover it by saying we are hoping, inventing, inspiring, leading and guiding. But really, in our worst moments, at our most angry, threatened and afraid, we are asserting our ego at God and other people in a desperate scramble to get back to solid, predictable ground.
God made us this way, so he is not surprised when we come for Him with our blueprints and list of demands. He loves us still.
He waits for us to surrender to the only plan that matters: HIS plan. And when we do, when we can pray with open and obedient hearts that His will be done, then we can be free of our need to control.
Full Of Graces 